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"I think directing and choreographing have such a similarity: how to work with movement and motion and narration and emotion and creating images.... And I think having the ability to control the … [Read more...] about Benjamin Millepied gets the film bug

"He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive. He really is. He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with on a movie. And he’s not saintly, and he’s got a big mouth, and he’ll do gross things your … [Read more...] about “He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with” says Jodie Foster after directing Mel Gibson in a new film

"No one has ever hired me to take my clothes off and be sexy. No one. Not even when I was 25. But I’m funnier than I am sexy, so I’m hired to make jokes about sex; I’m not hired to do sex." … [Read more...] about Ted Danson on (not) being a sex symbol

"You have only so many variables you can hold in your brain. If those variables are stage elements, one must be actively engaged with all of them to draw a rich experience from a show. If the music … [Read more...] about The brain and dance: Rodolfo Llinas, professor of neuroscience at NYU School of Medicine, explains

At about the age of 15, my sister and I joined the local Big Little Theatre Company, and I learnt to stand in front of an audience and perform. It was also where I started to use my voice. We would … [Read more...] about Soprano Kate Royal on finding her voice in Bournemouth

"Directors would rather there was no interval, especially the younger ones who fondly imagine the audience to be gripped by their visions. While theatres make a lot of money from intervals, there has … [Read more...] about It’s curtains for the interval – Chris Campbell, literary manager at the Royal Court, comments

Last month, statistics from the classical-music website Bachtrack confirmed this to a public that wasn't particularly surprised: Gergiev has long been notorious for a schedule that might slaughter a … [Read more...] about It’s official: Valery Gergiev is the busiest conductor on Earth

Christian Dior suspended its star fashion designer John Galliano on Friday pending an inquiry into accusations that he hurled racist remarks at a couple in a Paris bar. About a week before Galliano … [Read more...] about Dior suspends John Galliano after a drunken bar spat

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during the uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak. Items including a statue of King … [Read more...] about Some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum have been recovered

“Ironically, when I was a kid I’d been in a dance class with Natalie Wood and Jill St John and all three of us went on to marry Robert Wagner; those two in real life and me on TV." … [Read more...] about Stephanie Powers on Robert Wagner

Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late yesterday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt's top archaeologist told state television. The museum in central … [Read more...] about Looters destroy two Pharaonic mummies in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum

Life sadly imitated art for Boney M's Bobby Farrell today as his death turned into an uncanny coincidence relating to one of his biggest hits. The frontman died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date … [Read more...] about Boney M’s Bobby Farrell dies on the same day and in the same town as Rasputin… the subject of one of the band’s biggest hits